The detective novelist Ariadne Oliver is Agatha Christie's humorous self-caricature.

The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.

Daedalus is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne.

Minos himself is said to have died at Camicus in Sicily, whither he had gone in pursuit of Daedalus, who had given Ariadne the clue by which she guided Theseus through the labyrinth.

In this cult Artemis is hanged from a tree, just like Ariadne in Greek mythology, who was hanged from a tree when she was abandoned by Theseus.

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He has no sons to succeed him and the Albanian-born Anastasius, palace official ( silentiarius ) and favoured friend of empress Ariadne, is elevated to the throne.

* Empress Ariadne, wife of Anastasius I, dies at Constantinople and is buried in the Church of the Holy Apostles.

* In Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne ( 1523 ), the god's chariot is borne by cheetahs ( which were used as hunting animals in Renaissance Italy ).

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

The Naxos portion of the Ariadne myth is also told in the Richard Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos.

In mid-late 466, Zeno married Ariadne, elder daughter of Leo I and Verina ; as there is no reference to a divorce with Arcadia, she should have died in those years.

Ariadne, the Greek goddess of fertility, is similar to Clotho in that she carries a ball of thread, much like Clotho ’ s spindle.

Just to the northwest of there, off the modern road, is where Evans chose to have Villa Ariadne built as his home away from home and an administrative center.

In Greek mythology, Phaedra ( Greek-Fedra ) is the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, sister of Ariadne, wife of Theseus and the mother of Demophon of Athens and Acamas.

Ariadne ( Etruscan Areatha ) is paired with Dionysus ( Etruscan Fufluns ) on engraved bronze Etruscan bronze mirrorbacks, where the Athenian culture-hero Theseus is absent, and Semele ( Etruscan Semla ), as mother of Dionysus, may accompany the pair, lending a particularly Etruscan air of family authority.

* " Ariadne auf Naxos " is a poem by Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg.

* " Ariadne " is a story by Anton Chekhov.

* " Klage der Ariadne " is a poem by Friedrich Nietzsche.

* The HMS Ariadne is the name of a ship in Alistair MacLean's 1986 novel Santorini.

* Ariadne is an important character in Sara Douglass's historical fantasy series The Troy Game, published by HarperCollins 2002-2006.

* " Ariadne " is the protagonist of Montreal writer Tess Fragoulis's 2001 novel, Ariadne's Dream.

* " Ariadne " is the title of a Rock ' N ' Roll song written in 1959 by Eddie Love and Stu Shermeroff and recorded by Eddie Love and the Lovers.

* " Ariadne " is a song in The Frogs, a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Burt Shevelove, revisions by Nathan Lane.

In this song, Dionysus reflects on his marriage to Ariadne.

* " Ariadne " is a song by The Crüxshadows on their 2007 album DreamCypher

* " Ariadne " is a song on the album Inner Journeys by Cusco

* " All My Love " is a song by Led Zeppelin which mentions Ariadne under the French-derived name Arianne, with references to the labyrinth story.

According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.

Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a skein of thread, literally the " clew ", or " clue ", so he could find his way out again.

On the strength of a passage in The Illiad, it has been suggested that the palace was the site of a dancing-ground made for Ariadne by the craftsman Daedalus, where young men and women, of the age of those sent to Crete as prey for the Minotaur, would dance together.

The above lines are of Virgil taunting the Minotaur in order to distract him, and reminding the Minotaur that he was killed by Theseus the Duke of Athens, and instructed by the monster's " sister " Ariadne.

Unlike Minos I, Minos II fathered numerous children, including Androgeus, Catreus, Deucalion, Ariadne, Phaedra, and Glaucus — all born to him by his wife Pasiphaë.

The Minotaur was defeated by the hero Theseus with the help of Minos ' daughter Ariadne.

Kerenyi suggests that the name Ariadne ( derived from, hagne, " pure "), was an euphemistical name given by the Greeks to the nameless " Mistress of the labyrinth " who appears in a Mycenean Greek inscription from Knossos in Crete.

It seems that the Minoan vegetation goddess Ariadne was absorbed by more powerful divinities.

Dionysos greeting Ariadne with her sacred serpent, in the sacred grove for their marriage, symbolized by the winged cherub with a nuptial torch, in the presence of his foster-father, Silenus

At the time of the death of Zeno ( 491 ), Anastasius, a palace official ( silentiarius ), held a very high character, and was raised to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire by Ariadne, Zeno's widow, who preferred him to Zeno's brother, Longinus.

Many of them were absorbed by more powerful divinities, and some like the vegetation goddesses Ariadne and Helen survived in Greek folklore together with the cult of the " divine child ", who was probably the precursor of Dionysos.

Some regular features disappeared over the years: the Grimbledon Down comic strip about a research establishment run by the hapless Treem ; Ariadne, later with Nature, commenting every week on the lighter side of science and technology and the plausible but impractical humorous inventions of ( fictitious ) inventor Daedalus, often developed by the ( fictitious ) DREADCO corporation.

File: Tizian 048. jpg | Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian, 1523

In this account, Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, Rhadamanthys ' brother ; another Ariadne was the daughter of Minos ' grandson and namesake, who features in the Theseus legend, and was rescued by Dionysus.

* Aegle, daughter of Panopeus, who was beloved by Theseus, and for whom he forsook Ariadne.

Ariadne fell in love at first sight, and helped him by giving him a sword and a ball of thread, so that he could find his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth.